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A review by kiwilizzi
God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel: How Truth Overwhelms a Life Built on Lies by Costi W. Hinn
5.0
This book is good. Like really good. I honestly want to go back and read it again. Costi Hinn had (and still has to some extent) a front row seat to the prosperity gospel movement. I appreciated his insight and exposure of what he says paves the way to hell.
The most sickening thing for me is how these people profit off of those in desperate need. When they tell people to give more, to give to the point of risk, I want to cry. It is so sick and wrong. You cannot take money promising that God will heal or bless that person. Obviously there is so much to unpack with this movement aside from this, and Costi does a wonderful job documenting his history with his family and how he stepped out of their sin. He provides great steps and recommendations to spot a prosperity preacher as well as how to help someone who has been taken by it.
“The sovereignty of God matters to Christianity, and we could go as far as to say that it is un-Christian to deny the sovereignty of God. The prosperity gospel certainly denies the sovereignty of God to the extent that it demeans God to the position of a puppet and elevates man to the position of a puppet master who makes confessional demands by faith. It does this by considering faith as a force and God as the one who must respond to our faith. This is a heretical twisting of true faith.”
The most sickening thing for me is how these people profit off of those in desperate need. When they tell people to give more, to give to the point of risk, I want to cry. It is so sick and wrong. You cannot take money promising that God will heal or bless that person. Obviously there is so much to unpack with this movement aside from this, and Costi does a wonderful job documenting his history with his family and how he stepped out of their sin. He provides great steps and recommendations to spot a prosperity preacher as well as how to help someone who has been taken by it.
“The sovereignty of God matters to Christianity, and we could go as far as to say that it is un-Christian to deny the sovereignty of God. The prosperity gospel certainly denies the sovereignty of God to the extent that it demeans God to the position of a puppet and elevates man to the position of a puppet master who makes confessional demands by faith. It does this by considering faith as a force and God as the one who must respond to our faith. This is a heretical twisting of true faith.”